Charles Buell has a contest about our First Memories Of Kindergarten, so I thought I would share mine. As many of you know I was born in the Azores, which is a group of islands in Portugal, and my parents can to the United States when I turned 8 years old. The island that I was born on was called Santa Maria, and we really did not have a Kindergarten there as it would be defined here in the US.
What I do remember about my first year of school was that there were multiple grades in the same room. The only other thing that I remember was the teacher slapping me in the face. I don't remember if the slap was meant for me, or if she swung at someone else who was smart enough to duck. As you can see discipline in school there was handled much differently than it is here, and you did not come home and tell your parents, because that only resulted in another whack.
I do remember a little more about my few school years of school there. The most memorable of these memories were of the school that I attended just before coming to the US. Every day at noon you were given a bowl of warm milk, and a hefty table spoon of cod liver oil. Boy or boy the memory of the cod liver oil is not one that will ever go away. That stuff was nasty, and there were many times that I had to be given a second spoon full because the first did not stay down. And OH YES everyone was lined up, and only one spoon was used.
I don't think I have to say it, but my children’s First Memories Of Kindergarten as well as my wife's are much different than mine ........... LOL.
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